

In December 2020, at a pro- Trump protest in Washington DC, he led a crowd to chant "Destroy the GOP" and encouraged them to sit out the US Senate runoff elections in Georgia in January 2021 in protest of what he saw as their insufficient loyalty to Trump. Michelle Malkin joined his alt-right movement, the " Groypers", and he threatened violence against Black Lives Matter activists for taking a counter-protest sign and glasses from his friends Jaden McNeil and Matthew Colligan, respectively. Fuentes became a highly divisive figure even among right-wingers, criticizing Ben Shapiro for bashing him in a speech, and also criticizing Charlie Kirk for being insufficiently alt-right. In 2019, he also compared the Holocaust to a "cookie-baking operation". He then became a podcaster, YouTuber, and social media commentator, and his publisher, RSBN, disassociated itself from him after he, in April 2017, called for the killing of globalists and the arrests and deportation of CNN employees. He became a staunch white nationalist, attending the Unite the Right rally and dropping out of college following his involvement in the alt-right rally. Nicholas Joseph Fuentes was born in Lyons Township, Illinois in 1998, and he served as president of his high school's Student Council before attending Boston University. Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fuentes (18 August 1998-) was an American far-right political commentator and podcaster and the leader of the alt-right " Groypers".
